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From: joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West)
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Subject: Re: .US as an upper level domain
Message-ID: <194@gould9.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 10:32:21 EST
Article-I.D.: gould9.194
Posted: Wed Nov 27 10:32:21 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 28-Nov-85 04:48:38 EST
References: <16@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Organization: CACI, Inc. -- La Jolla, Calif.
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Summary: use .US

In article <16@brl-tgr.ARPA>, Vshank%Weizmann.BITNET@WISCVM.ARPA (Henry Nussbacher) writes:
> 1) Europe and the rest of the world will be using 2 letter country codes
>    as their upper level domains and something known as "Administrartion
>    Domain Name" as their 2nd level qualifier.
> 2) Some domains currently in existence span many countries.
> 
> Now let us look a little down the road (say, 3 years):  X400 and RFC822/920
> have a number of gateways in existence.  A piece of mail arrives from
> user@seismo.css.gov and is destined for someplace in X400-land.  Do you
> know what the gateway will end up doing?  It will add in a .US after
> gov so the people in x400-land will know which gateway to send their mail
> back to.  They will not recognize gov and edu and org and all the other
> upper level domains that Arpanet has decided on.

I think it is becoming more obvious that electronic mail will eventually
comprise a multi-domain system, including:
	ARPA
	BITNET
	UUCP
	MCI Mail
	Western Union
etc. etc. etc.

Whatever is done with the UUCP world should be compatible with X.400 (or
its successors) so we don't have to junk it and change the rules
a few years down the road.  One such transition will be horrendous
enough, thank you.
-- 
	Joel West	 	(619) 457-9681
	CACI, Inc. Federal, 3344 N. Torrey Pines Ct., La Jolla, CA  92037
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